beureum

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   by beureum 8y ago

   There exist pauseless GCs, Apple's objection to GC is that GCs need more RAM, and that would reduce their profit margin on iPhones. A fair reason if you ask me.
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   by beureum 8y ago

   Well yeah pretty much anything is better than ObjC.
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   by beureum 8y ago

   You've hit the nail on the head, but I take the opposite conclusion. Swift is designed around premature optimization. In my experience, improving programmer productivity is more important. The more time spent with compiler enforced bus